Afternoon front page: Committee to recommend pause on MAID for mental illness; boy, 12, charged with attempted murder of cop; and more
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Halt MAID for mental illness, parliamentarians expected to advise
In total, the committee heard from 44 witnesses and received 32 briefs, many opposed to granting MAID eligibility based solely on mental illness over several core issues, including whether it’s possible to determine with any degree of certainty when psychiatric suffering has become “irremediable,” essentially incurable, and a lack of access to mental health care…